Taiwan's first national digital museum will serve as a family-based educational tool offering information ranging from archaeology to physical therapy, the National Science Council (NSC) said yesterday.
Thanks to a NT$130 million three-year research project that began in September 1998, Tai-wan's first digital museum with local characteristics is now available on the Internet at http://turing.csie.ntu.edu.tw/aps.
"When browsing the digital museum, you can even enjoy 360-degree images of historic relics," Wang Fan-sen (
According to research-project leader Chen Hsueh-hua (陳雪華), a library and information-science professor at National Taiwan University, her team integrated 28 theme Web sites with high-quality content. The content, Chen said, can be divided into four categories: literature and religion, folk customs and historical artifacts, mathematics and biology, as well as architecture and geography.
By accessing the digital museum, Chen said, Internet surfers gain easy access to abundant information, such as rare pictures of Taiwan that were taken decades ago, digitized artifacts of the National Palace Museum, the historic sites of Shang Dynasty (
"By offering high-quality content through the Internet, we hope to establish a useful public database that parents and school teachers can use to enhance the quality of education," Chen said.
At the press conference, Kao Shih-hsin (
"To attract children, we added as many as interesting motion pictures and interactive games as possible," Kao said.
To promote the project to educators, researchers will demonstrate the site at a workshop at National Taiwan University on Tuesday.
Chen added that some Web sites have started to develop mirror sites of the digital museum in other languages.
Chen said the research project would be further developed under a five-year NSC plan -- the National Digital Archives Program -- that began in January this year.
According to the NSC, the program will spend NT$400 million a year to digitize vast amounts of artifacts in Taiwan's museums and put them on the Internet.
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